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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has there always been this discrepancy btw public school and private school GPA? What accounts for it?

Grade inflation? 
Size of class?[/quote]

Both. Mainly class size. If you have 500 kids in a class, you can give As to 100 students without looking like grade inflation, even if it is. If you have a class of 125, then giving As to 100 students looks like grade inflation, even if it isn't. You have to have a distribution of grades; everyone can't get As, so in a small school, you end up seeing kids with 3.5 GPA and 1490 SAT.[/quote]

Keep telling yourself that. The kids I know in public have landed at just as competitive schools as those in private. In many cases, well beyond. It's not what it used to be, but I understand that's a hard pill to swallow if you've paid private tuition for many years.[/quote]

Not what we are seeing. 
Top of the class… Meaning 4.0uw at a public school is definitely getting in to out of state public Flagships easily. But this group is having a much harder time with certain private schools in the top 20 where only a handful of kids from each public HS get in.

It’s a numbers game with the Private colleges and universities. They obv don’t want to only admit public high school students… Many of whom are asking for financial aid (tho obv not all).

Look at the data on where private high school kids go. They typically go to private colleges and universities. A very small group /percentage goes on public flagships. That’s where the discrepancy is.

So yes, all things equal, if you were gunning for a public Flagship, you are better off going to a public high school….[/quote]

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